Restoration Druid Netherlight Crucible Recommendations

This section of the Restoration Druid Guide explains the best relic trait choices for the Netherlight Crucible, a new system of artifact weapon progression added in Patch 7.3 Legion. This guide is currently updated and maintained by Jaydaa, Restoration Druid currently of Alacrity of US-Stormrage and formerly of Reckoning on US-Mannoroth. I've been raiding in WoW for almost 11 years on various healers and DPS with my most recent accomplishment of finishing US-12th, World-64th in Mythic Nighthold. Find me on Twitter.

Netherlight Crucible Overview

The Netherlight Crucible is a new system added in Patch 7.3. The Crucible allows you further empower your Artifact Weapon, by specializing and increasing the power from your relics. With it, each relic receives a small talent tree that you can select new traits from, depending how many traits your weapon have. Do not worry, however, because with the changes to Artifact Knowledge, unlocking the full power of the Crucible won't take long. Learn everything about this new system in our Netherlight Crucible Guide.

The first tier of unlocks happens as you unlock the crucible giving you +5 item level per relic. (total of 15 item levels).

Shadow & Light Traits

The Second tier of unlocks happens at artifact traits 60, 63, and 66. With the opening of 安托鲁斯，燃烧王座, it is now possible to obtain 大军之印, which increases the potency of your Tier 2 Crucible traits by 50%. It might be a really strong legendary if you are lucky with Netherlight Crucible rolls!

The traits unlock randomly but below is a rough priority for which traits to chose if given the choice between them. It is worth noting that as a healer the game will force at least one of your "Shadow" or "Holy" Traits to be a throughput increase, the other however can be a damage trait. The following is a relative ranking of the traits

Minor heal after taking damage that is difficult to utilize as a healer.

Shadow:Most of the Shadow traits are damage oriented traits as such only two are actual throughput increases. Below you will find those two and the rest should be considered to be roughly a zero HPS gain. (Some have minor heal effects when you deal damage which will proc off of our damaging spells but they will not be impactful enough to notice.)

Despite the recent nerfs, 暗影大师 should be the priority option being better than all of the Light traits AND all of the shadow traits.

The values for the new shadow and light traits below are subject to change based on hotfixes and new information.

For more accurate values for Netherlight Crucible traits tailored to your character, feel free to utilize Twig it by Torty A Restoration Druid Stat Weight spreadsheet - Created by Torty#7895 of Druid Discord.

Tier 3 Traits

These traits unlock at 69,72,75 traits in your weapon. These mimic your "Bronze" traits, though they cannot roll the trait you already have on that relic. For these ones you should follow the same ordering as your standard relics. Be sure to observe when you acquire new relics, what the last tier traits are available. A very unattractive relic at face value could turn out to be much better than expected due to the T3 traits that are offered.

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